“During user testing, we found that even GNOME veterans have a tendency to pause in their task after opening the Activities Overview.”
System76 is redesigning GNOME’s workflow because GNOME won’t. It splits the overview, makes the Super key a launcher and adds a dock. Over 56 percent of surveyed Pop!_OS users already run a dock or panel extension. A hardware company had to survey its own users to find out what GNOME’s designers decided they didn’t need.